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Enabling everything: scale, disability and the film The Theory of Everything

2015; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 30; Issue: 8 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/09687599.2015.1071942

1360-0508

Vickie Gauci, Anne‐Marie Callus,

Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices

This article looks at the representation of scale in the 2014 film The Theory of Everything, identifying moments that relate to three concerns: firstly, how disabled people experience scale issues at an all too practical level in daily life; secondly, how Hawking’s experience of scale at the level of both body and mind is (a)typical of the way it is experienced by disabled people generally; and, thirdly, how a focus on the film can prompt some rethinking of perspectives both within disability studies and within the conceptualisation of scale more broadly.